Re: The very title of Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honour trilogy sug
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23 Oct 2018, 13:19
Broke piece by piece the sentence will make you more clear.
The very title of Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honour trilogy suggests a robust and (i) _________tale,
Here, the trilogy whatever it is the trilogy the sentence talks about is robust AND you need a word that fits in the same line from the first three choices avant-gard is suddenly out: it has no sense. Avant gard is a movement of art or else on the frontline. pell-mell means disorganized (a thing) so is not in the same fashion. B is the right fit in the first blank
and the bare outline seems to fit, as the protagonist Guy Crouchback serves as a commando, trains as a paratrooper, and is dispatched to Yugoslavia to aid the partisans.
here, we do have a description of the main character of the tale. So, positive.
In fact, however, Crouchback is an extraordinarily (ii) _________ man, ill-at-ease with his younger and more (iii) _________ fellow officers, and almost never motivated by appetite or impulse.
Notice here the contrast word however that suggest is coming to a shift in the sentence in a negative sense or in the opposite sense. Now, Crouchback is ill-at-ease which means is inexperienced so the best word following this is effete or worn. Then, we do have a contrast between him and the fellow officers that is more motivated or vigorous. Instead, he is never motivated.
Hope now is more clear to you.
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